Bradley Smithe

Bradley Smithe (1686-) was an English pirate who was active during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Biography
Bradley Smithe was born in Exmouth, Devon, England in 1686, and he moved to the Caribbean to seek fortune and glory as a privateer. Smithe fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, preying on Spanish Navy vessels for Great Britain as a privateer, but he was unemployed with the war's end in 1713. Smithe turned to piracy, and he became a crew member aboard Edward Kenway's Jackdaw. In April 1717, Smithe was given command of Santa Isabel, a captured Spanish galleon, and he commanded it as a part of Kenway's fleet.